Am Freitag, 7. September 2007 schrieb Leslie P. Polzer: I bought the Alesis M1 Active MKII about two years ago for exactly the same usage. They are still 333€ on thomann.de For surround in movies I also connect my old amp and 2.1 speakers for the rear channels (if I fix the cabling after the last move)... Arnold -- visit http://www.arnoldarts.de/ --- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a rm / -rf. Or ask your administrator to do so...

Leslie P. Polzer wrote: You're not specifying the price range. However, I'm very happy with my KRK Rokit 6 active speakers, and I've heard that many others are happy with them too. They're about £450 in Norway. If you double that amount, you could go for the more expensive line of KRKs, you could take a look at the KRK V6. Other than that I've heard good things about DynAudio active speakers. If you really wanna blow your wallet you could consider the PMC Transmissionline speakers. They also come with or without built-in (pluggable) power amps, so you can deceide if they should be active or not. To me I prefer active speakers because: - They're more "heavy duty" than typical HiFi, and designed to withstand more harm than HiFi. At least it's supposed to be like that. - You get two seperate power amps. Don't tell me that one integrated stereo power amp is better. Highend HiFi amps often are built as two seperate amps, even with seperate trafos. This is a good design wich you get (much cheaper) with active speakers. - They usually have balanced inputs. Phono cables are crap. Period. - It's more practical in use with a computer than a HiFi is. - You can buy more speakers if you wish to make a 5.1, 6.1, 7.1 or even 10.2 setup. Linkz: http://www.krksys.com/ http://www.pmc-speakers.com/ http://www.dynaudio.com/eng/index2.php -- Ringheims Auto - Fri musikk for bilstereo! http://ringheimsauto.org

My system: Rotel Integrated Amp <http://www.rotel.com/products/integrated-amplifiers.htm> Acoustic Energy Bookshelf Speakers <http://www.acoustic-energy.co.uk/Product_range/Reference_series/AE1_classic.asp> - Entertainment Room Elac Sub <http://www.elac.com/en/index.html> - Entertainment Room Turbosound Impacts <http://www.turbosound.com/showroom/impact80.2/index.html> in the kitchen on the B speaker channel Slim Devices Squeezebox <http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_squeezebox.html> for a media source Infrant ReadyNAS <http://www.infrant.com/products/products_details.php?name=ReadyNAS%201100> to hold on to everything and drive the Squeezebox This is a system I have pieced together over the last decade or so. I stay with 2 channel more for the simplicity of it than anything. I spend 98% of my time at home listening and not watching and 2 sets of stereo speakers on the amp fills the entire apartment with nice quality audio at a nice level without disturbing neighbors. Using the squeezebox as a source allows me to control the system from anywhere I have a web browser. Remember, with audio, there isn't so much right and wrong as there is my way, your way. I firmly believe a nice, noise free system is in the grasps of almost every budget. MattRock -- Matt Rockwell- Technical Director University of Wisconsin- WSUM Student Radio http://wsum.net/